Review: The Quarry

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While we wait for the next entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology, Supermassive Games is dishing out even more choice-based horror in its familiar cinematic style. And this time, it’s the big one — the moment fans have been waiting for since Until Dawn. From the outset, The Quarry tries to recapture that lightning in a bottle in terms of scope, story, and execution, and this supernatural end-of-summer-camp adventure hits the mark.

Evil is afoot, and your decisions will once again dictate who makes it to sunrise.

The Quarry (PC [reviewed], PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S) Developer: Supermassive Games Publisher: 2K Games Released: June 10, 2022 MSRP: $59.99 / $69.99

The Quarry is a standalone new IP — it doesn’t belong to Bandai Namco’s Dark Pictures series — but there are so many shared traits. And the refinements are stacking up.

If you’ve been on any of Supermassive’s wild rides before, you know what to expect by now — familiar faces from film and TV, lots of chatting, quieter clue-finding moments, plenty of frantic quick-time events, a guiding force in between chapters, and some gut-feeling life-or-death calls. The Quarry covers all of those bases, and it covers them well.

These games are at their best when they leverage classic horror while also infusing some modern touches, meta moments, and well-timed laughs, which can be a tough act to sustain. The best ones know when to fluctuate between tension, drama, and levity, while also seeding enough mystery to keep you speculating about where the story’s headed next. The Quarry hit those marks for me. It has some of the best-written Supermassive characters yet — a bunch of disobedient, but capable (!), teenage camp counselors trapped overnight — and a few major story